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...that a camel is led through the streets of Béziers (pictured), France on the feast day of Saint Aphrodisius, a semi-legendary saint said to have come from Egypt?
...that Sauternes wine producer Château Raymond-Lafon remains unclassified since its five-year-old vines were too young for the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855?
...that Paul Koechlin, winner of the first automobile race ever, the 1895 Paris–Bordeaux–Paris race, was a second cousin to Maurice Koechlin, the structural engineer of the Eiffel Tower?

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